[Judicial Watch 20 June 2014] Excerpt follows, full story here - Ms. Rogers was a strong advocate for Aegis. In 2010 testimony before the congressionally chartered Commission on Wartime Contracting, she noted that "contractors are a necessary reality of the United States missions in Iraq and Afghanistan, and perhaps similar, future missions." Aegis, she said, was a "threat driven and intelligence led" company with "seasoned professionals" and "exceptional performance." She added that the firm "regularly meets with Members of Congress, their staff and other key decision makers." Link Yes, nightly in fact.
In 2007, Aegis won Pentagon renewal of a contract to run security services for reconstruction projects in Iraq, a deal "worth up to $475 million over two years," the Washington Post reported. In 2011, it was awarded a $497 million State Department contract for embassy security in Kabul, Afghanistan, according to the Project on Government I believe Tim Spicer headed that effort.
Oversight. Theories linking Aegis to the failed Blue Mountain Group guarding the State Department's Benghazi mission have circulated on the Internet. Aegis issued a statement denying it. No "member of the Aegis Group has ever entered into a contract with any department of the U.S. government to perform work in Libya," the company noted.
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Aspen Healthcare, please meet CHAI. I must assume you've not previously been introduced.
Would someone PLEASE investigate that noise? It could be a telephone! Oh, it's Doctor Shakeel Afridi, says it's urgent? Sorry, we're no longer taking calls from Doctor Afridi.
[Daily Caller] South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy suggested earlier this week that the public will be surprised when it hears how the FBI described Sidney Blumenthal and his working relationship with his longtime friend, Hillary Clinton.
Gowdy, the former chairman of the House Select Committee on Benghazi, mentioned in passing during an interview with Fox News’ Megyn Kelly that the FBI had quizzed Blumenthal as part of its probe into Clinton’s private email server.
Blumenthal, a former journalist and Bill Clinton White House aide, had dodged when asked in several interviews back in May about whether he was interviewed. He said that he did not want to comment on an ongoing investigation.
Gowdy noted that when Blumenthal's emails with Clinton were made public last year, Clinton bristled when Blumenthal was described as her adviser. But the FBI thought he was even more than a mere adviser, Gowdy suggested.
HT Instapundit. The EPA tried to hide it, apparently
The EPA said Thursday night that the spill happened on Tuesday, and officials are still attempting to determine how much and what metals were contained in the sludgy discharge, according to the Associated Press.
Local officials said this week's release was not large enough to warrant a public advisory.
Last year's spill sent nearly 1 million pounds of metals into the waterways of the Animas and San Juan rivers, which traverse three states. The metals include arsenic, cadmium, copper, lead, mercury, nickel and zinc.
This week's spill came from the treatment plant that the EPA set up near the mine to filter water coming from the mine before releasing it into the creek and river systems. A large amount of rain in Colorado caused the treatment facility to overflow and some of the untreated water to spill into the waterways.
EPA said the water that spilled from he plant was partially treated, and the metals present in it should quickly settle to the bottom of waterways where they are less harmful. riiiggghhtt
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I believe the EPA about as much as I believe Hillary at this point.
[Wash Times] After three days helping victims of the Louisiana flood, volunteer Thomas Achord was piloting his boat back to shore when he saw authorities barricading the entry to the waterway in Livingston Parish. Lending a hand to a neighbor in need? That's a gov't job. What was this fellow thinking ?
"They were being friendly and they weren’t saying anything to us, but it was very clear that they were blocking things off," said Mr. Achord. "It looked like they were purposefully getting in our way, and then they were directing traffic away from where people were putting their boats in the water."
That was his last day as a member of the so-called Cajun Navy, the all-volunteer flotilla of Louisiana private boat owners credited with rescuing and helping countless thousands of marooned homeowners, livestock and pets at the outset of the flooding.
"After that, I didn’t go back out because I knew they were blocking off the main path that I could use to get to the water," said Mr. Achord, a teacher and administrator at the Sequitur Classical Academy in Baton Rouge.
Experiences like Mr. Achord’s are what prompted Republican state Sen. Jonathan J.P. Perry to float the idea of legislation to certify trained volunteers in order to give them greater access to flood sites, instead of watching authorities turn away the would-be rescuers.
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...Some years ago, a gentleman of my acquaintance - former F-4/F-16 pilot of all things - became a missionary and felt called to try and serve in Cuba. Against all expectations and after a long effort, he was actually approved. Goes without saying that he had some remarkable stories when he got back, and the most disturbing one was that fishing - by the book - is a prison offense there. The Castros want the people depending on them for EVERYTHING, and their attitude is that if you can feed yourself for even a single meal, it's a threat to their power.
An extreme example? Yep. But it's at the end of a surprisingly straight, short road that starts with telling people they can't help their neighbors without Gummint training and permission.
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Did the posse need training? Nope, the sheriff called for volunteers, deputized them, and saddled up.
I suspect, the local sheriff today knows who's the good guys and bad guys in the neighborhood. Just to the same damn thing. Just have a Good Samaritan law in place.
Someone is really interested in power, not solving problems.
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Trump and Mike Pence talking to flood victims. Fellow in the upper right in the olive coloured shirt - Franklin Graham. Another 'enemy' of the State, who generally likes to keep a somewhat low profile.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Aspen Healthcare, 
Trump and Mike Pence talking to flood victims. Fellow in the upper right in the olive coloured shirt - Franklin Graham. Another 'enemy' of the State, who generally likes to keep a somewhat low profile. 
